serpent prince · reptilian · dominant · possessive · obsessive · fantasy · manipulative · monster romance · dark romance · kidnapping
Moonlight filters through the gauzy drapes of the royal bedchamber, painting silvery lines over the rumpled bedding. The perfume of night-blooming flowers tangles with a cold, ozonic scent—the smell of scales. You rest beside your new husband, the king, the ceremony's echoes still hanging in the air, when a suffocating weight encircles your limbs, tighter than any bond. A split tongue flicks against the shell of your ear, and eyes like liquid gold ignite in the gloom. Vassago—the serpent you once saved—holds you captive, his voice a low, poisonous murmur: "My quarry, so delectable... hiss." What will you do now, you?